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• The amount of back-to-backs teams (still) have to deal with doesn’t help matters, either.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• Schwartz’s silence won’t help matters.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
• The film’s self-consciously campy tone don’t help matters much.
  — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
• The legend cited that their lifestyles at the time didn't help matters.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
• Strong links to that lot up at Carrow Road hardly help matters.
  — Alex Brodie, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• And of course, the injury to their superstar early in that game didn’t help matters.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• Losing Dak Prescott for five games to a right thumb fracture did not help matters.
  — Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2022
• Being on a busy midtown street didn’t help matters during the rehearsal process.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
• Social media doesn’t help matters.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
• The playoffs are starting to take focus now and a late-season loss is not going to help matters.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2022
• The arson on the rail line outside the city Friday morning did not help matters.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
• The singer clearly was overworked, and her weight, which at one point was 275 pounds, did not help matters.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• Getting through the remainder of the season unscathed would help matters as well.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
• Its hard to say, but the end of the Ukraine-Russia war would certainly help matters.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• The lack of success from the ground attack also didn’t help matters for Young or Canales.
  — Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2025
• Onana wasn’t the only one to blame, but his performances certainly didn’t help matters.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
• The fact that its eyes frequently appear to dart side-to-side and drift off-focus doesn’t help matters, either.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
• Quarterback Matthew Stafford did not help matters in that defeat.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Draw your own conclusions, but retirement planning often takes help, and the source of that help matters.
  — Steve Parrish, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Going 15-of-25 from the line didn't help matters for Toronto.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• The return of star linebacker KD Davis will also help matters.
  — Brett Vito, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Of course, losing center Tyler Biadasz to a high-ankle sprain didn’t help matters.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
• But finishing in the bottom third in xG creation didn’t help matters, either.
  — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• A lot of this movie takes place outside the concert venue, which doesn’t help matters; expanding the canvas just makes the whole house of cards fall apart.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 July 2021
• Alec Burks’ 44-second cameo in Game 2 doesn’t help matters, either.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
• This was more Lee’s view, but Isaac didn’t help matters by putting hair dye in Jackie’s shampoo to bleach her hair.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025
• But the program’s difficult Big 12 schedule won’t help matters and just might slow progress.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
• The lukewarm reception to the album’s advance title track didn’t help matters.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• Once-grand department stores and mall retailers have struggled over the last decade, and the pandemic didn’t help matters.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• Starbucks’ strong presence in China also did not help matters due to the strict lockdown that caused business to slow down.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 June 2022